Fannie Mae CEO to Democrats: You Are Our 'Family' and 'Conscience'

A stunning example of the incredible disconnect between the mainstream media and the blogosphere is this video of the interim Fannie Mae CEO, Daniel Mudd, addressing the Congressional Black Caucus, including Barack Obama, at their swearing-in ceremony in 2005.

Although this video is spreading quickly in the blogosphere, you have yet to see or hear anything about it in the MSM. As of this writing, a check on Google News shows NO news outlet has so much as mentioned this video despite the fact of Obama being present and later receiving $126,349 from Fannie Mae.

Ask yourself this, if the CEO of Fannie Mae had addressed a similar "family" speech to a group of congressional Republicans who had received big donations from that organization, do you not think the video would have already appeared on the nightly news of the major networks?

[better question: how does a junior senator, in just two years, receive virtually as much money from this public-private outfit as did the chairman of the committee that supposedly regulates it did in nine?]

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